What is Computer Crime?
Computers as Instruments of Crime
Using a computer as an instrumentality of the crime means to use it as a communications tool to facilitate commission of the crime. Computers are instrumentalities of the crime when they are used criminally to attack another computer, to acquire information stored on another computer, to acquire access to another computer without authorization or in excess of authorized access, to damage another computer system via a datastream, to commit fraud, to conduct gambling, to participate in conspiratorial planning, to transfer child pornography, or to harass, to list only some examples.
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